Dawn Cerny
Research plays a very big role in Dawn's work. It all started the January of 1986, when she watched the live broadcast launch of the Challenger, which exploded on live television. And then to top that off, she watched a CBS news show called "60 minutes" about Chernobyl. She was scared, she knew she could die, and for the longest time that scared her, but she came to the realization that these things won't kill her.
She liked to chart what happened in history and how it progresses. It's very important to her to read the encyclopedia to know about the art and history of things. How war was, how it is, and what it causes, physically, and emotionally.
She's very interested in death, and the fact that we all die, and the pain of others and herself. This leads to her relationship with war. With her brother gone for war, it scared her. Death was on her mind. Her piece about war, and all the death it brings, was very personal to and for many other people. But she approaches death, and her work, with humor. There can always be a good situation pulled from a bad one.
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